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Friday, 23 November 2012

Christmas Card Activity

What better way to get your little ones in the Christmas
spirit at this time of year, than with some wonderful craft activities. Making
Christmas cards is a great affordable activity that little ones will love and
can let them express their creativity. Making cards couldn’t be easier and this
guide and printout attached makes it a walk in the park.

Preparation

Before you start you will need a few essentials:

·A4 Card or thick paper

·Scissors (safety scissors – if the kids are cutting)

·Glue (a glue stick is best – less messy!)

·A computer attached to a printer

·Something to colour in with: pens, pencils, paints or crayons etc.

Folding
the Card

Take your piece of A4 white or coloured card or and fold it
across the centre as shown below. The card should now be able to stand on its
own ether as a standard card or a portrait one. Once folded you should have the
basic template for creating any kind of greetings card.

Decorate
the card

Now that you have your card shape, it’s time to start
decorating it to look really Christmassy. This is where the fun really
begains and your childrens imagination shines. A great idea when making the
perfect Christmas scene is to get a background. This time of year you can find
the perfect background almost anywhere by cutting out magazine pictures or even
finding a great winter scene online. This guide has a wonderful neutral
background of the sun setting over snowy hills and is perfectly sized to cover
the front of landscape style card.

Once you have found the perfect background get your children
to cut it out with some safety scissors and don’t worry if they’re not neat as
it is all part of the home made charm. If they are a little young to handle
scissors of any kind you might have to do this part. Once you have the
background cut out so it leaves a bit of a border of the original card around
the outside, stick it on preferably with a glue stick to avoid the potentially
devastating amounts of mess other glue can create.

Now that you have the background it’s time to stand adding
decorations to create the perfect Christmas scene. Christmas images can
be found all over the place from excess wrapping paper to newspaper cuttings.
Look around and get a big selection for your children to choose from. This
guide has some great printouts which even come uncoloured for your children to
have extra fun

This guide includes some great printouts which come both
coloured and uncoloured for your children to have extra fun colouring them in
just how they want. This not only prolongs the activity but lets them express
their creativity as there is nothing wrong with a red penguin. The images with
this guide have an easy to follow cut out line or can be cut exactly if more
skilled hands are handling them. Once you have all your decorations
simply cut them out and stick them on where you want.

Write
the card

Now that you have your card decorated there is only one
thing you need to do write the thing. Writing your own personalised messages in
the card is much more special than shop bought clichés. One great idea if your
children are just starting to write is to write it out yourself in a thin
pencil and get them to trace over it with a thick pen. Not only does this make
the children feel a larger part of the experience but it also helps with their
hand writing. If they are really little why not get them to dip their hand in
paint and sign it with a cute hand print.

This activity guide was designed on behalf of Vistaprint the
online gift retailer that supply some wonderful products including Photo Christmas Cards

Printouts

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